This collection of material from Syriac sources was assembled by
William Cureton from the Nitrian desert manuscripts. The 'Apology of
Melito' is now considered spurious, and the production of a later age.

I have omitted almost all the Greek and Syriac with which the
work is liberally studded. Most of the notes are philological, many
concerned with highlighting how mistaken Renan or B. Harris Cowper ('B.H.C.')
were in their translations of some of this material. I have omitted almost
all of those. Selected notes, or portions of them, have been moved from
the end to the foot of the work to which they relate. The Greek of
Bardesan, quoted from the Praeparatio Evangelica, I have omitted; likewise the
Latin of Caesarius. The reason for omission is that I would have to
manually transcribe the material, character by character, and I do not know of
any online readers to whom it would be of sufficient interest to justify so many
days labour.

Roger Pearse
Ipswich
9th July 2003

This text was transcribed by Roger Pearse, Ipswich, UK, 2003. All material on this page is in the public domain - copy freely.

Greek text is rendered using the Scholars Press SPIonic font, free from here.